I don't know about the bricks, but the wood will be used. They are taking this warehouse down with the sole purpose of getting the wood from it. There are many places that sell salvaged wood, and it's worth a lot of money. You can build houses, barns, ect from it. The quality of this wood is probably much much better than anything you can buy now days. You can see in the picture how they have it neatly stacked and covered. They have stacks like that in 3 different parking lots around there, and they have already hauled most of it away.

I would guess the bricks may not be worth the time to clean. That would be a task in itself.

You are on the money though about them getting a lot of money for the old wood and it being better than alot of what is available today. I saw a show on (I think it was on) Discovery about this company that actually dives for trees deep down in lakes etc. They lift them up, clean then cut them etc and then use them for expensive wood flooring. Some varieties are ones that are very hard to find nowadays and because of their locations really lend a different pattern/color to the flooring. I forgbot where the place was located but they had a showroom showcasing all the types that they typically salvage. Pretty interesting actually...

When the Maxwell Street neighborhood here in Chicago was demolished, I saw many examples of "vintage" bricks bundled up for resale/reuse. The reports I've gotten of what they are doing at Taylor/Crow doesn't indicate they are bundling the brick, but maybe they're just not that far along yet.

I have been led to believe from some sources that the new owners of Taylor do intend to preserve and reuse in some way some of the buildings, such as the "castle," but this is all pretty vague at this point, at least in terms of what has filtered through to me.

I wonder if it is the same firm that has been tearing down the Hill and Hill warehouses off Berheim Lane. That distillery has both iron clad and brick warehouses and the company has been salvaging the wood and the brick from the brick warehouses. Those brick warehouses were built in the 30's and had a nice art-deco design.

Florida Distillers also tore down and recycled most of the warehouses at the Yellowstone distillery when they acquired it in the 1990's.

As I am new here (for no other purpose than the google I did about the Old Taylor Distillery) I wanted to give an educated update on this thread for you all.

First the "reclamation" Is being, or has been berformed by heartpinereserve. They are in fact reclaiming the brick, limestone, and old growth hardwoods from the Old Crow, and Old Taylor distilleries. The reclamation has ceased for the time being at both locations, but there are intentions of continued work in the future. heartpine owns the Old Crow property, and has in fact posted signage to identify it.

However the work at Old Taylor is not as in depth since the removal of the warehouse on the North side of the road. Also as I know from the progress of the thread you know the owner of what was "Old Castle Properties" did in fact pass away, and there has been no activity on the site for any restoration in years.

There is a man who leases a building from the new owners and he operates a woodworking shop, and has for several years. He makes custom wood products from the various woods, minerals, and sediments that became by products of the distiling process. He specifically makes custom ink pens, from various woods and even the sour mash that has been reclaimed as well.

I have some new photos that I will post of the site in a few days to add to this update.

Hello, I have had a fascination with abandoned distillery's for along time and have spent a lot of time in the James E Pepper distillery and Old Taylor.. I just recently started taking amateur photographs of these places and they can be seen here :http://abandonedkentucky.deviantart.com/ that is what the distillery looks like today.... I also know someone who works here http://heartpinereserve.com/distillery_history_pg.html and the wood is in fact used for hardwood flooring...the site also has brick and limestone for sell.... I plan to spend many weekends photographing this Distillery ..as well as others..my site http://www.abandonedkentucky.com/ will be up fairly soon and will have a lot of pics of distillery's on it... I love these old places..I do NOT what to see them destroyed...

cowdery wrote:Pine can't be used for hardwood flooring since it's not hardwood.

Reminds me of all of the morons in Arizona where I lived in the mountains who burned pine in their fireplaces and then stood around crying like jackasses when their houses burned down from the sap catching fire in the chimney.